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Interesting point from the Raleigh News & Observer : "North Carolina has maintained the strongest Democratic Party in the South during the past decade by siphoning off moderate Starbucks Republicans."
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Democratic National Committee
A new Denno-Noor poll in Michigan finds Lt. Gov. John Cherry (D) leading the Democratic pack to replace Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), "but he's generating little enthusiasm among voters." Cherry leads with just 20%, followed by Andy Dillon (D) at 6% and George Perles (D) also at 6%.
The GOP race ...
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Republican National Committee
Frank Rich : "Culture is politics. Palin is at the red-hot center of age-old American resentments that have boiled up both from the ascent of our first black president and from the intractability of the Great Recession for those Americans who haven't benefited from bailouts. As Palin thrives on ...
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Sarah Palin
Recession
In an interview on CNN , Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) was asked whether he would vote in favor of health care reform even if "every piece of evidence tells you, if you support that bill you will lose your job."
Replied Bennet: "Yes."
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Michael Bennet
Health care
Sources tell Hotline OnCall that Katie Couric's producer sent two requests to Sarah Palin's publisher for interviews during the Going Rogue book tour, and so far, Couric has been denied. "It's not surprising -- Palin has not agreed to sit down with more than
a small handful of mainstream media ...
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Sarah Palin
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CBS
Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) has a solid lead in the four-way Democratic race for the open US Senate seat, but with just 16 days until the primary election, nearly three-quarters of likely voters have yet to decide who they will support, according to a Boston Globe poll .
Coakley leads ...
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General David Petraeus
Meaningless, except for the symbolism: Fewer than half of Iowans approve of President Obama's performance in office a year after he carried the state in the 2008 election, according to a the Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll .
"Obama's overall job approval slipped to 49% from 53% in September. ...
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Gallup Poll
Barack Obama
Follow the final hours of Senate debate on the health care reform bill with our custom Twitter Aggregator .
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"The battle has just begun. We are going to do everything and anything we can to prevent this measure from becoming law."
-- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by Politico , vowing to do everything in his power to kill the health care bill in the Senate.
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Bud Day
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With the last holdout Democratic senators signaling that they will vote tonight to let the health care legislation move forward, Democratic leaders said they have the support they need to bring the bill to the floor, the New York Times reports.
Both Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Sen. Blanche ...
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Blanche Lincoln
Health care
A new Zogby poll in North Dakota finds Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) would be crushed if challenged by Gov. John Hoeven (R), 55% to 36% with 9% undecided.
Dorgan, however, leads another possible challenger, Duane Sand (R), 60% to 28% with 10% undecided.
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choices: You'll be able to follow the Senate health
care debate on C-SPAN or you can watch the live stream of the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson dinner with Vice President Joe Biden as the ...
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Putting news of President Obama's approval rate dipping below 50% in perspective, USA Today runs an excellent interactive chart plotting presidential approval rates since 1945. When comparing various presidents to each other, as of right now, President Obama most closely tracks Ronald Reagan.
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With Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) announcing today that he would vote on Saturday night to bring the health care reform bill up for debate, attention turns to four others whose votes may indicate the ultimate success or failure of the bill.
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) -- According to Politico , ...
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The Senate Ethics Committee publicly admonished Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) for "discrediting himself and the Senate in the way he sought appointment to the seat of now-President Barack Obama," Roll Call reports.
In a public letter of qualified admonition, the committee found that Burris "should ...
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There's an online version of the Inside Tim Russert's Office exhibit that opens today at the Newseum.
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Earlier this month we noted that Gallup's daily tracking poll showed President Obama's approval rate bouncing around 50% for several months but never actually breaking through that line.
Apparently that streak will end today when Gallup updates its numbers at 1 p.m. ET. Who wants to bet that ...
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DCCC chair Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) tells The Hotline that the key to Democratic fortunes in the midterm elections will be mobilizing the voters who showed up for last year's presidential election.
Said Van Hollen: "If you were to see the kind of turnout in the Congressional elections of 2010 ...
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A new Marist Poll in New York finds Andrew Cuomo (D) has massive leads over both Gov. David Paterson (D) for his party's gubernatorial nomination, 72% to 21%, and against Rick Lazio (R) in the general election, 69% to 24%.
Said pollster Lee Miringoff: "Right now, Andrew Cuomo has a clear path ...
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A new Rasmussen survey finds 51% of Americans believe canceling the rest of the economic stimulus money would create more jobs than actually spending it.
Derek Thompson : "That is insane... The idea that canceling the stimulus would create more jobs implies that passing the stimulus has ...
